Canon needs a compact walk around RF 35mm

Goodmeme wrote:

Dave King wrote:

From the reviews I've read, the f/1.8 is not it !

A lot of complaints about focus hunting....it needs a switch to lock out the macro range.

The 40mm f2.8 pancake is my favorite walk around EF lens....how bout one for the RF mount?

Or a standard 35mm compact "street" lens, f/2.8 would be fine.

Either would make the RP body a killer street combo.

Why did Canon leave such an essential "use type" out of it's RF lineup?

Dave

Yes I just bought my first MILC, a lightly used EOS R6, and have been disappointed, partly because I want an R3 viewfinder with OVF simulation,

But you knew that when you bought it, right? Just read one of the many reviews of the camera. The OVF simulation feature was introduced after the R5/6. My R6II has it. I haven't tried it yet, because I'm happy with the exposure simulation feature, which is, in my opinion, a massive advantage over the optical viewfinders of DSLRs. If you really wanted that feature, you should have bought the R6II instead.

but partly because my just about small enough set of primes, 35 non is, 85 usm and 20 usm, are so much bigger with the RF adapter. My 35L is even bigger, obviously!

Again, you obviously knew this in advance. The information about the size of the adapter is readily available. If you wanted a smaller 35, you could have bought the RF 35, which is smaller than the old 35 with adapter, and much smaller than the IS version of the EF 35 with adapter.

For walkaround /travel etc, I would love a 35 f2.8 the same size as Sony's lens. In fact, I am even beginning to think about switching systems because of it.

Again, all this information is readily available. If you want a compact 35 on your R6, the RF 35 is excellent. It is much much better than the old non-IS EF 35, and better (though not by as much) than the EF 35 F2 IS. If you want something even smaller, you might have to wait. But if you want a lens that's even smaller, I'm not sure why you would buy the R6 in the first place. If you're going for ultra-compact, crop or M43 is probably the way to go. My M6II with 22 pancake is a wonderful small walk around combination (that's a lot of what I use it for). The IQ is as good as, or better than, a full frame with a 35 F2.8.

Needless to say, if Canon had licensed its lens mount to Sigma, Samyang and Tamron, there would be less frustration, and I'd be sticking around to buy an R6 II, R5 II, or perhaps even an R1.

While I'm ranting about Canon, the thing they need to do most of all, is release an R2-D2, I mean an R2 model, which is an R1 without built-in vertical grip, similar to the Sony A1.

No, that's not the thing they need to do most of all. Perhaps it's what you most want them to do. That's not at all the same thing. A natural part of human development occurs when children realize that their own wants are not the universal standard for human needs. It seems that many posters on DPR are developmentally stuck.